"We offered players a Camelot. We immediately discovered players wanted to smear shit all over the walls, create giant penises out of whatever was available, rape, rob and kill their fellow players and anything else not given invulnerability while making the teabag emote over their corpses and generally be utter and complete cunts. So we dialed it back a little." ~HaemishM

Interesting coincidence: Friday evening, we were set to introduce the boy to some more classic movies. This time it would be Terminator (Netflix). He was taking his time and so I was poking around Netflix; I quickly found the original X-Files and so my wife and I started watching the pilot. Fast-forward, my son is the world's newest X-Files fan.

Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.They called it The Prayer, its answer was lawMommy come back 'cause the water's all gone

I am so excited for XF to return! Can't wait to see how M&S have changed and what they are up to. Can you imagine Mulder's twitter? Scully even twittering at all? All sorts of things have changed in twenty years, plenty of new story ideas to go around. I bet Mulder's FB is filled with crop circles and blurry UFO pics.

That's actually an interesting comment. Watch the second episode and ask yourself what things would be like if they had smartphones, or if Scully had internet access in the motel. She would have uploaded everything to the cloud before the place was torched. Also, no caller ID.

Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.They called it The Prayer, its answer was lawMommy come back 'cause the water's all gone

Considering I watched the last episode of the X-Files and it was all about that Mulder had found the truth and he could do fuck all about it (there was an alien invasion coming in 2012) And smoking man died as a hippie in a cave, I think what M&S have been doing is "getting off the drugs and explaining why they were fucking wrong about everything.

The last episode of the X-files was utter shit, by the way. So not enthusiastic about a new series.

I don't think its particularly heretical to say that the end of the ex-files was really bad. Last few seasons had stretched the show longer than it should have gone. They had no real arcs left to cover, and the main actors left the show. It went the exact same route as Lost, where it should have ended several seasons sooner. The end was better than the last few seasons had been, but it still felt like a rushed let down after all the build up and superb storytelling of the majority of the series. I looooooved the X-files, but it was a victim of American TV's standard modus operandi of forcing a show to run as long as it still makes money. Up until it eventually turns to total shit and everybody stops watching it because you can't tell a narrative story forever with no end in sight. Then cancel it when its at its very worst.

Mind you, that still doesn't stop it from being one of the best TV series ever made.

"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor."-Stephen Colbert

Sure, but when that's how every single show is run in America, it gets old. I've always been envious of the UK (and Japan) for making so many shows that are just one season. It was a huge hit! Great, think of something else now!

Setting a definitive time limit just results in a better overall story. Open ended is fine when you are just making a totally episodic TV series that only randomly references past episodes like Cheers or Friends. It falls apart when trying to tell a big coherent story. BSG probably would have been one of the most perfect series ever if it had just been three seasons (and by that I mean with them knowing they only had one seasons left, they would have done something totally different than they did for season 3 ). Lost being set at 3 seasons also probably would have been good.

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"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor."-Stephen Colbert

I don't think its particularly heretical to say that the end of the ex-files was really bad.

The heathen part was for not being excited about the new show. I mentioned earlier that I stopped watching religiously after David left so I don't have issues with people complaining about the how the series ended.

I liked Doggett and the woman agent but I knew the show was on its last legs. Loved the first movie, disappointed in the second. That trainwreck makes me nervous for the new series. What a terrible X-File.

It was a no-brainer; make another UFO movie and have M&S hook up. But no, Chris Carter was too coked up to figure out even that simple plot. Surprise! M&S are in bed together! Wha? We wanted the courtship and seduction, not skipping past that. At least that's what I wanted.